Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland

Niall Ó Dochartaigh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, and convener of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence.Katy Hayward is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow of The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.Elizabeth Meehan holds an Emeritus Chair in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. In 2001, she moved from the School of Politics in Queen’s University Belfast to become the Founding Director of the university’s new Institute of Governance and Public Policy.

• ForewordIntroduction Part I: Contexts1. State, Nation, Island: The Politics of Territory in Ireland2. The British-Irish Relationship: Confusion, Complexity and (ultimately) Consensus3. The EU Context of Change in State and Nation Post-19734. The Effectiveness of the Agreement: International Conditions and Contexts 5. British-Irish Relations and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: The Importance of Intergovernmentalism Part II: Competition6. Modelling Ireland’s Crises: North, South, and North-South Intersections 7. The Changing Nature of Electoral Competition in Ireland 8. Dynamics of Change in Political Parties: An All-Island Perspective 9. Nationalist in the North and Socialist in the South? Examining Sinn Féin’s Support Base on Both Sides of the Border Part III: Complexity10. Persistent Gender Inequality in Political Representation, North and South 11. Northern Intransigence and Southern Indifference: North-South Cooperation Since the Belfast Agreement 12. Women’s Activisms in Ireland, North and South: Different Pathways, Shared Interests 13. Nations, Citizens and ‘Others’ on the Island of Ireland

"Niall O Dochartaigh subtly portrays how that normality is reinforced by banal everyday media, institutional and political discourse, notwithstanding all-Ireland nationalist rhetoric. Yvonne Galligan and Melanie Hoewer empirically and theoretically document gender inequality and women's activism in both parts of the island. Michael Gallagher, Jonathan Tonge and John Garry provide rich analysis of nationalised electoral competition, political parties and Sinn Fein's contrasting appeal north and south...studies from talented and critical authors such as these."Paul Gillespie, Irish Times